A 43 year old man has confessed to killing his landlady inside her own home at a village outside Chania in Crete on May 30th, following a heated argument after she allegedly accused him of causing damages during a routine inspection visit.
Authorities however firmly believe that this was a crime of passion after Stavroula Leventaki, 45, spurned his affections.
The killer’s wife and daughter were on the island of Gavdos at the time of the killing, as they own a tavern there.
She had returned to Crete last week to testify over a different offence, as the man was found in possession of 14 cannabis trees.
The perpetrator, a Scopjan national, permanently living and working on the island for the past couple of decades, who had been renting the house for four years, confessed to her killing in the early hours after his arrest yesterday.
He buried her body in a field he owned, five kilometres from the house. Police found it this morning in a state of advanced decomposition with stab wounds on the torso and a head wound caused by a blunt instrument.
The 43 year old claimed that he had an argument with the victim, after she claimed that he had damaged the house.
During a physical altercation he stabbed and killed her, as he said. He then placed her in a bin bag and carried her in his car to the place that he buried her on the night that she died.
An investigation is ongoing, with police expected to make an official statement highlighting the motive, the circumstances of the killing and the evidence that led to the solving of the case.
The Scopjan had increasingly become a person of interest, following the disappearance of the victim and investigators suspicions grew after he attempted to flee, three days following a third round of testimony by authorities who pressured him for answers.